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This simple summer pasta dish is the perfect way to dispatch that bumper crop of zucchini.

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A simple swap is all it takes to reimagine panzanella. This Italian summer salad usually features cubes of day-old rustic bread and tomatoes, tossed with basil leaves and a simple vinaigrette. But slices of ripe, juicy peaches in place of, or in addition to, the tomatoes bring a different (but entirely welcome) sweetness to the mix.

If you aren't able to escape to a country retreat or beach house this year, feel free to come in and look around our favorite warm-weather homes.

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Sculptor Elena Colombo used her ingenuity to create a lively getaway in a turn-of-the-century Long Island beach cottage, packed full of found objects, eye-popping colors, and occasional sparks of pure genius.

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A historic home on New York's majestic Hudson River is transformed into a rustic respite for its owner and her twelve grandchildren. Tour Midwood and the many benefits of its sophisticated camp setting.

Interior designer Kimberely Renner purchased a pair of run-down duplexes in Austin, Texas, then set about renovating and painting to turn the space into a light, bright, unified home for her family.

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Walking through the rooms of many house museums, a visitor is instilled with a weighty sense of history. At Beauport, the Gloucester, Massachusetts, home of early-20th-century designer Henry Davis Sleeper, that feeling is tempered with a good dose of whimsy.Sleeper -- a decorator, collector, and skilled recycler -- used old-fashioned Yankee thrift and a big imagination to create a home unlike any other. He was such a genius at mixing themes, accents, and colors that touring the rooms is not just a learning experience but pure sensory delight.